• @sailingbythelee
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    331 year ago

    Churchill’s point is that stupid things can still happen in democracies, but no one has come up with a better alternative. What would you suggest as the better alternative? If you don’t have one, then you just helped prove Churchill’s point!

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      -301 year ago

      Every human knows and has used a superior system from the time they first started playing with other people: Consensus.

      • @[email protected]
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        261 year ago

        …which is basically what democracy is, but systemitized such that it can be applied at scale.

      • @cedarmesa
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        • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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          -21 year ago

          Your shoe has a pretty good knowledge of anarchism. You could learn a thing or two from it

        • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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          -151 year ago

          Democracy is majority rule, and fuck whatever the minority wants.

          Consensus is we don’t do anything unless we all agree.

          • @reddit_sux
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            81 year ago

            Then you don’t do anything. Ok got it, 👍🏾

            • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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              -41 year ago

              So the only way to get anything done is to do it against the will of at least some people? You’ve never been in a group where you agreed on a course of action together?

              • @[email protected]
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                In a group… you mean a very limited setting where you can discuss directly with everyone and get direct feedback in real time from everyone?

                How do you suggest that this might work on a large scale, with millions of people?

                Edit: And if for example 10 million people somehow found consensus and then one guy is like “lmao no”, everything gets canned?

                • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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                  01 year ago

                  There’s lots of ideas about this, but my solution is to simply eliminate the idea that we need to rule millions of people.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    41 year ago

                    So some form of tribalism? And what if you generally like living in your consensus community but one thing rubs you wrong and you’re against it? You just leave and look for a community where you agree with everything 100% all the time? Good luck with that.

          • @rambaroo
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            51 year ago

            So nothing gets done then.

      • @TheFonz
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        31 year ago

        Are you…high???